Truth and Transcendentalism
Transcend the understandings of the mass to arive at the pinnacle of reason. The pinnacle of reason is the very boundary between santity and insanity. The mass is at the bottm of the mountain, indulging in animalistic pleasures. They live like animals and they are the animals. On top of that, we have degrees of illumination of awakening human beings who are afraid, fearful of disorder. They see the seeming chaos that of which is the world as nature dictates, wishing to tame the chaos into submission to their will. Going further up, we have the philosophers who wants to find out the truth, who desires justice, enlightened individuals who seeks the legendary Pandora’s Box. They have a firm belief in reason, the human desire, the human cognitive instinct to find the cause of things, to find an equation that dictates everything. For them, there is a justification for all phenonemon. Beyond that, is the pinnacle of reason. It is a point where the wander is no longer human for he sees through reason. He becomes the animal, and the philosopher at the same time, yet he is neither, he is nothing. He realises that human behaviour is human behaviour, hate is hate, beauty is beauty, he no longer passes judgement on things because judgement itself is a subversion of truth. Truth is truth in itself, falsity is falsity in itself. He sees the world as it truely is, beyond reason. All human behaviour is psychological, reason is an attempt to justify what is essentially unreasonable. If it is true that all is psychological, it would be a psychological preference of the sane over the insane. The wanderer at the pinnacle of reason sees the sane and insane as belonging to the same class of psychology but with varying degrees on the scale of psychological spectrum. All things are essentially similar and yet different. What is truely ignorant is to have a passionate debate about the grey. It is exciting to even conceive the possibility of going crazy, to surpass reason itself. It would be a complete victory to go beyond our psychology. What would it be like to actually go beyond the pinnacle? To believe in a contradiction. To believe in a paradox. What would it be like to go beyond cause and effect, to unchain oneself from the reign of logic. The first step is to understand psychology is not logical or even reasonable. Our psychology is derived from our will interactions with experience. While logic and reason is analytical. Cause and effect should not be applied on our psychology, but if it does apply, it just goes to show a lack of understanding of oneself. A free mind is constantly changing, cause and effect applies to the inanimate, it is laughable to become burdened by one’s past which no longer exist. Ourself is a constant progression, to rely on experience is to be haunted by a ghost. To remove cause and effect from our psychology is essential because it allows the self to see itself as the way it is and not as a slave of the metaphysical determinism. Secondly, we must understand that our mind is the original cause. Reason and logic are inferior to our passion. If we retreat and observe logic as the way it is, we see that logic is a preference for order over chaos. If we further scrutinise, we see logic another department in the faculty of passion. The reason it has been given such prominience is because of practical purpose, in that it allows us to communicate. The very purpose of communication is absord more from the outside so we ourselves can be greater, but do we need to communicate once we have reached the pinnacle of reason? therefore at the top, we can discard the ladder of logic. Philosophers are not known to be wordy, for they are the ones whom are objective in assessing the known. Contradictions are nothing but like having feelings of hate and love simultaneous. The members in psychology are not mutually exclusive. The proposition that we have preferences and nothing more is enternally true. To justify upon that and argue about the grey is illogical. Yet many of us have been illogical while simultaneously believing things to be logical. Great philosophers have realised that passing judgements on human behaviour is amaturish, things are the way they are, people are in different state of mind and so be it. To transcend reason is to see the world in its totality, at the pinnacle of reason we no longer pass judgements but see things as the way it is. The willingness to relinquish reason is the goal to achieve. The absence of reason or even a solid contradiction is of no impediment to action. Reason is the rule of the game. The regression of which is to satisfy another’s inate passion. Even if I have no reason or no cause for an action does not mean the action can not be taken. Simpler yet, why do we need a reason, a permission to do an action? Reason seeks to legitimise an action. It is all of it, a psychological game. The greatest ability is to have a reason that is not a reason. If being asked, ‘why do you do what you did?’, the perfect answer is ‘because I have no reason.’ To have a reason that is not a reason is the greatest release, for us, for the individual and for all worthy of it in the human population. What a gift it is, to be crazy!
Author’s note: The above is a summary of ideas for my book. feel free to comment.
PoR
15/06/2005
